[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#740449: octave: Changing the figure visibility breaks the print to a file

[Maximiliano Curia]

Package: octave
Version: 3.8.0-5
Severity: important

Hi,

In octave to get a file output without showing the plot on the screen you
would normaly do:
 figure(1, "visible", "off");
 plot(sin(1:100));
 print -deps "/tmp/sin.eps"

Sadly, the new version produces no output file after touching the "visible"
attribute, either for a particualar figure, as shown, or setting the
default behaviour with:
 set(0, 'defaultfigurevisible', 'off');

This issue breaks, a very useful scripting feature and the octave frontends
that depends on this behaviour, such as cantor.

Happy hacking.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless             2:1.7-51
ii  libamd2.3.1                      1:4.2.1-3
ii  libarpack2                       3.1.5-2
ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.1-4
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          1.2.20110419-7
ii  libc6                            2.18-3
ii  libcamd2.3.1                     1:4.2.1-3
ii  libccolamd2.8.0                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcholmod2.1.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcolamd2.8.0                   1:4.2.1-3
ii  libcxsparse3.1.2                 1:4.2.1-3
ii  libfftw3-double3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfftw3-single3                 3.3.3-7
ii  libfltk-gl1.3                    1.3.2-4
ii  libfltk1.3                       1.3.2-4
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.11.0-5
ii  libfreetype6                     2.5.2-1
ii  libgcc1                          1:4.8.2-16
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]         10.0.2-1
ii  libglpk36                        4.53-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.0-2
ii  libgomp1                         4.8.2-16
ii  libgraphicsmagick++3             1.3.18-1
ii  libgraphicsmagick3               1.3.18-1
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.5.0-2
ii  liboctave2                       3.8.0-5
ii  libqhull6                        2012.1-4
ii  libqrupdate1                     1.1.2-1
ii  libqscintilla2-9                 2.7.2-1+b2
ii  libqt4-network                   4:4.8.5+git209-g718fae5+dfsg-1
ii  libqtcore4                       4:4.8.5+git209-g718fae5+dfsg-1
ii  libqtgui4                        4:4.8.5+git209-g718fae5+dfsg-1
ii  libstdc++6                       4.8.2-16
ii  libumfpack5.6.2                  1:4.2.1-3
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.2-1
ii  octave-common                    3.8.0-5
ii  texinfo                          5.2.0.dfsg.1-2

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  gnuplot-qt [gnuplot-x11]  4.6.5-1
ii  libatlas3-base            3.10.1-4
ii  pstoedit                  3.62-1

Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn  octave-doc      <none>
pn  octave-htmldoc  <none>
pn  octave-info     <none>

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